Ebola Surveillance Thread

Free Republic Threads ^ | August 10, 2014 | Legion

[Smokin' Joe]

I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.

Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.

Thank You all for you participation.

[Smokin' Joe]

The Ebola Factor: Rick Perry’s popularity soars with his decisive approach

[Thud]

That’s how I see it ending, but only for the survivors in West Africa. IMO Nigeria is the only country there with a chance of surviving as a state.

[Smokin' Joe]

We need an Ebola czar: McCain

No, we don't, John.

Not one d@mned thing we have ever had a 'czar' for has been defeated.

[Thud]

This is critical information.

[Smokin' Joe]

Medical crews surround aircraft at Logan Airport

[Smokin' Joe]

Nina Pham identified as Dallas nurse with Ebola

[Smokin' Joe]

CIDRAP: "We Believe There Is Scientific Evidence Ebola Has The Potential To Be Airborne"

[Smokin' Joe]

Ebola

[Smokin' Joe]

Will U.S. Troops Be Protected From Ebola During Deployment to West Africa?

[Smokin' Joe]

Who is more likely to make this Ebola gaffe?

[MulberryDraw]

Nina Pham identified as Dallas nurse with Ebola

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214641/posts

(Some links aren’t working quite right) I noticed Yahoo didn’t use one of Nina Pham’s nicer pictures. I’m guessing they’d rather not make her a poster child for incompetent government,...

[PA Engineer]

A top scientist worries that Ebola has mutated to become more contagious

This is going to take some pretzel logic for the "crisis messaging" to overcome.

Jahrling now serves as a chief scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he runs the emerging viral pathogens section. He has been watching this Ebola epidemic with a mixture of horror, concern and scientific curiosity. And there's one thing he's found particularly worrisome: the mutations of the virus that are circulating now look to be more contagious than the ones that have turned up in the past.

Peter Jahrling: I want to know if this virus is intrinsically different from the one we have seen before, if it is a more virulent strain. We are using tests now that weren't using in the past, but there seems to be a belief that the virus load is higher in these patients [today] than what we have seen before. If true, that's a very different bug.

[PA Engineer]

Specialist Hospitals Face Challenges in Handling Ebola Outbreak

The hospital won’t recoup all the money it will spend on Ebola treatment, Dr. Ribner said. “We learned that caring for patients with Ebola virus disease is extraordinarily expensive,” he said.

Full article can be found at PFIF HERE.

[noinfringers2]

Care is only a part of any costs associated medical costs. Much of the cost of medical care is the desire to use a totally societal need to make society pay for such. The extent of extracting wealth like some gold miner for a mineral is not lost on the medical industry.

[pinksocks]

Fox news just reported a Kansas City hospital received a possible ebola patient. Patient worked on a medical boat off west coast of Africa; presented to ER with high fever and other severe symptoms...waiting for an interned link to pop up; this JUST came across the news.

[pinksocks]

Link re: suspected kansas city ebola case
http://m.wistv.com/wistv/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=od:z0APQtXN

[miserare]

How many of the 70+ workers in Texas Presby went thru a routine like this after contact with Duncan?

How many people are going to be placed on the same dialysis macine used on Duncan?

How many are going to be placed in the same isolation room?

[miserare]

This was inevitable.

Above all others, the educated healthcare personnel realize just what is going on here, and what the odds are.

[ElenaM]

Sorry for the delay. The gennie is a Duromax Hybrid Propane/Gasoline 10,000 model XP10000EH. The thing weighs 265 pounds!

[Jane Long]

Thanks for that info.